amfly
Five fruit flies pinned to electric pins. A sixth fly, wired into a reward-punishment loop, decides which two get current, gets dopamine when one maxes out, and burns when the others go cold. Six copies of the MaleCNS connectome, 166,700 neurons each, bit-identical until something is done to them. [Look at the bottom of the README]
Details
- External ID
- 1369938717
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- amfly
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6856264411990777
- Tags
- connectome, fly-brain, fruit-fly, fruit-fly-brain, malecns, threejs
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- fruit fly connectome applications
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- neural connectome experiment with simulated fruit flies
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Simulating full biophysical neural dynamics of multiple 166,700-neuron connectomes (MaleCNS) with reinforcement learning loops requires massive computational neuroscience and specialized high-performance simulation infrastructure.
What it would actually take: This project requires biophysical neural network simulation software (such as NEURON, Brian2, or custom CUDA/Metal neural network kernels) handling hundreds of thousands of biologically accurate Hodgkin-Huxley or leaky integrate-and-fire neurons. The hard parts include ingesting connectome synaptic weight graphs from electron microscopy datasets (FlyWire/Hemibrain), real-time synaptic plasticity modeling, and distributed GPU execution to achieve acceptable simulation time-steps.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
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- FlyBrain-HalfLife · github · 2026-09-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FlyDrones · github · 2026-09-15 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- awesome-fruit-fly · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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